View full sizeBenjamin Brink/The OregonianCheryl Strayed, at her home in Portland, is having one heck of a good year. Her book, "Wild," has been chosen for Oprah Winfrey's revived book club.

Cheryl Strayed was already having one heck of a year. The Portland author's book, "Wild," has been a critical and popular blockbuster, a best-seller, and is being developed for the movies by Reese Witherspoon.

Oprah Winfrey, the publishing industry’s unrivaled tastemaker, will revive her popular book club next week after a two-year hiatus, promising the book business some of the sales and publicity it thought had vanished along with her weekday talk show.

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Winfrey is expected to make several book selections each year. And for her first pick, she has chosen “Wild,” by Cheryl Strayed, a nonfiction retelling of the author’s epic hike of the Pacific Crest Trail that was published in March by Knopf.
“I love this book,” Ms. Winfrey writes in the July issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, which will highlight the new book club on its cover and feature an interview with Ms. Strayed. “I want to shout it from the mountaintop. I want to shout it from the Web. In fact, I love this book so much and want to talk about it so much, I knew I had to reinvent my
book club.”

Strayed posted a link to the New York Times story on her Facebook page, with the comment, "My secret is out."